| Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum | |
 View of the Mausoleum with the waters around it
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| Location: | Accra, Ghana |
| Built: | July 1 1992 |
| Architect: | Don Arthur[1] |
| Governing body: | Ghana |
The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum is a great structure built in remembrance of Osagefo Kwame Nkrumah. It was built many years after his government collapsed due to a coup d'etat, and he was subsequently exiled from Ghana.
History
Dr. Nkrumah was overthrown by the military government of Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka in 1966, after ruling for 9 years. He then went to exile in the Republic of Guinea. He fell ill and died in Bucharest, Romania 1972 when seeking medical treatment. Nkrumah's body was buried in Guinea. With Nkrumah dead, the Accra Students Union in London feared that, the total emancipation of Africa has come to a dead end. The students then sent a memo to Guinea asking that the body of the late president should be brought to Ghana only if the then military government would denounce coup d'etat and re-erect the statue of Kwame Nkrumah that was toppled down during the coup. This marked the beginning of the Nkrumah Mausoleum Monument. After 20 years of his death, Dr. Nkrumah's image was restored in 1st July, 1992 on the same grounds where he led Ghana to liberation from colonialism on 6th march 1957.
National Park
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (KNMP) is a National Park in, Accra, Ghana named after Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the ‘’founding father’’ of Ghana. This Park is located in the main commercial area in Accra on The High Street, a colonial legacy, where the Banks of Ghana are sited. The Park has a surface area of 5.4 acres and it is directly opposite Old Parliament House (now Offices of Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is also a colonial legacy. It is bounded on the east by The Center for National Culture, Greater Accra Region and Art Center and in the west by former Accra Community Center, now some offices of Accra Metropolitan Assembly. Other major structures at the Park are: A bronze statue (about 10.8 ft. in height) of Dr. Nkrumah erected on a pedestal and mounted at the same spot where a platform was raised for him to deliver his statement of independence by the eve of March 6, 1957. A personal museum on Dr. Nkrumah. Fountains, significant trees planted by distinguished personalities, and Afrikan leaders who have been requested to do so whilst on state visit to Ghana and manicured lawns. And Office buildings.[2]